04520nam 2200721 a 450 991046296430332120200520144314.00-8135-5968-510.36019/9780813559681(CKB)2670000000397266(EBL)1295721(OCoLC)853364242(SSID)ssj0000918776(PQKBManifestationID)11564778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918776(PQKBWorkID)10907307(PQKB)11460027(MiAaPQ)EBC1295721(OCoLC)852896329(MdBmJHUP)muse18913(DE-B1597)530256(DE-B1597)9780813559681(Au-PeEL)EBL1295721(CaPaEBR)ebr10733305(CaONFJC)MIL504612(EXLCZ)99267000000039726620120329d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnbecoming Americans[electronic resource] writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 /Joseph KeithNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20131 online resource (254 p.)The American Literatures InitiativeDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-5967-7 0-8135-5966-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways -- Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- Conclusion: An empire of alienage.During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.American Literatures InitiativeAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismImmigrants' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismCitizenship in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Immigrants' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Citizenship in literature.Race in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.810.9/920693Keith Joseph1048803MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462964303321Unbecoming Americans2477323UNINA03459nam 2200673Ia 450 991045113680332120210610213410.01-281-12547-497866111254790-226-14412-710.7208/9780226144122(CKB)1000000000406885(EBL)408456(OCoLC)476229104(SSID)ssj0000243564(PQKBManifestationID)11173518(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243564(PQKBWorkID)10159596(PQKB)10292663(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119069(MiAaPQ)EBC408456(DE-B1597)524663(OCoLC)1055414722(DE-B1597)9780226144122(Au-PeEL)EBL408456(CaPaEBR)ebr10209956(CaONFJC)MIL112547(EXLCZ)99100000000040688520031021d2004 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrSelected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues[electronic resource] /Madeleine de Scudéry ; edited and translated by Jane Donawerth and Julie StrongsonChicago University of Chicago Press20041 online resource (208 p.)Other voice in early modern EuropeDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-14404-6 0-226-14403-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-43) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES --VOLUME EDITORS' INTRODUCTION --VOLUME EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY --MODEL LETTERS FROM "AMOROUS LETTERS "(1641) --FICTIONAL ORATIONS FROM "FAMOUS WOMEN"(1665) --RHETORICAL DIALOGUES --SERIES EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXMadeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her writing and defended women's education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's Amorous Letters, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her Famous Women, or Heroic Speeches, and her series of Conversations. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.Other voice in early modern Europe.French literature17th centuryElectronic books.French literature843/.7Scudéry Madeleine de1607-1701.403267Donawerth Jane1947-542807Strongson Julie997791MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451136803321Selected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues2288397UNINA